Mills and Devoe and Simson were not to be blamed; Neil recognized that fact, but it didn't make him happy.

He found a seat on a bench near the door and dismally looked on.

Suddenly a conversation near at hand engaged his attention.
Mills, Jones, Sydney Burr, and two other assistant coaches were gathered together, and Mills was talking.
"The 'antidote's' all right," he was saying decidedly.

"If we had a team that equaled theirs in weight we could stop them short; but they're ten pounds heavier in the line and seven pounds heavier behind it.

What can you expect?
Without the 'antidote' they'd have had us snowed under now; they'd have scored five or six times on us." "Easy," said Jones.